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Edited By Keith Allan and Kasia M. Jaszczolt

This book "fills the unquestionable need for a comprehensive and up-to-date handbook on the fast-developing field of pragmatics" and "includes contributions from many of the principal figures in a wide variety of fields of pragmatic research as well as some up-and-coming pragmatists."

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The Oxford Applied Linguistics series is aimed at applied linguists,lecturers, teacher trainers, students on advanced/postgraduate courses, andpractitioners interested in gaining a wider perspective on their work. Itprovides up-to-date coverage of the latest research in applied linguistics,together with discussion of psychological, sociological, and othertheoretical issues of relevance to the study of language in the real world.

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic andaccessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in orderto keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. Readers will find succinctand up-to-date descriptions of a wide range of psycholinguistic andneuropsychological topics such as language and the brain; neuroimaging andother research methods in psycholinguistics and brain research;non-nativist approaches to language acquisition; explicit/implicit learningand memory, procedural/declarative knowledge, and the automatization oflanguage skills; learner characteristics, age effects, and the criticalperiod hypothesis; and the psychological basis of language learning ineducational contexts.